{"id":118374,"date":"2017-11-21T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=118374"},"modified":"2017-11-20T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T22:23:03","slug":"redux-jack-kerouac-shelly-oria-erica-ehrenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/21\/redux-jack-kerouac-shelly-oria-erica-ehrenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Jack Kerouac, Shelly Oria, Erica Ehrenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfnx3y2sMXUtu-ZwAQeTN1iAYh_S21I2df71FY0mU5GxosjAw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kerouac_by_palumbo_2copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-118375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kerouac_by_palumbo_2copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kerouac_by_palumbo_2copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kerouac_by_palumbo_2copy-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kerouac_by_palumbo_2copy-768x614.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, we bring you our 1968 interview with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4260\/jack-kerouac-the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jack Kerouac<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6310\/my-wife-in-converse-shelly-oria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shelly Oria<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s story \u201cMy Wife, in Converse,\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6447\/pause-at-the-edge-of-the-country-erica-ehrenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Erica Ehrenberg<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s poem \u201cPause at the Edge of the Country.\u201d You can also listen to all three in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>second episode of our new podcast<\/strong><\/a>! Bring them on the road, in the air, or in the quiet car while you travel home for Thanksgiving this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4260\/jack-kerouac-the-art-of-fiction-no-41-jack-kerouac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jack Kerouac, The Art of Fiction No. 41<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><em>Issue no. 43 (Summer 1968)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The original Buddha wouldn\u2019t even walk on young grass so that he wouldn\u2019t destroy it. He was born in Gorakhpur, the son of the consul of the invading Persian hordes. And he was called Sage of the Warriors, and he had seventeen thousand broads dancing for him all night, holding out flowers, saying, \u201cYou want to smell it, my lord?\u201d But by the time he was thirty-one years old he got sick and tired &#8230; his father was protecting him from what was going on outside the town. And so he went out on a horse, against his father\u2019s orders and he saw a woman dying\u2014a man being burnt on a ghat. And he said, \u201cWhat is all this death and decay?\u201d The servant said,\u201d That is the way things go on. Your father was hiding you from the way things go on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/6310\/my-wife-in-converse-shelly-oria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cMy Wife, in Converse,\u201d by Shelly Oria<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><em>Issue no. 209 (Summer 2014)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I took a cooking class recently. My wife and I take \u00adclasses. It is a passion of my wife\u2019s, taking classes. My wife is good at most things one could take classes in, which, when you think about it\u2014and I\u2019ve thought about it\u2014means my wife \u00adexcels in all things. And I believe that is in fact true. I believe my wife excels in all things. I am not blinded by love when I say this\u2014we have been together eight years. They say after seven, whatever blindness you had is gone.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/6447\/pause-at-the-edge-of-the-country-erica-ehrenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u201cPause at the Edge of the Country,\u201d by Erica Ehrenberg<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><em>Issue no. 216 (Spring 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He gets back in the car, resting a plastic tray of nachos on his jeans. I smell the salt, the corn, the nacho cheese, its under-smell of plastic, the way his hair smells when he hasn\u2019t washed it in a few days, gasoline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Tune in for free\u2014and while you\u2019re at it,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=EDTNS17&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0<em>for instant access to everything we\u2019ve published since 1953.\u00a0<\/em><em>Order now and you\u2019ll get a copy of our new\u00a0anthology,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/women-at-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women at Work<\/a>,\u00a0<em>for only $10 more.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, the editors of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. 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